Great Britain 1849 shilling

from the Stack's Bowers 2019 NYINC sale, lot 43139

This specimen was lot 43139 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2019), where it sold for $720. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1849. PCGS MS-65 Gold Shield. Sharply struck with lovely iridescent tone, soft satin luster and excellent eye appeal." This type was struck 1838-66 in large quantities with a slightly modified obverse continuing until 1887. Altho this is a low mintage date, it obtains little premium.

Recorded mintage: 645,000.

Specification: 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver, .168 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: S-3904; KM-734.1.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, Matt Orsini and Cris Chatigny, The January 2019 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

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